Shizuo Ichimura1, Wei Quan2,
Tadao Matsunaga2, Yuichiro Matsuoka3, Kagayaki Kuroda4,
Yoichi Haga2
1KANEKA Corporation, Settsu, Osaka,
Japan; 2Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering, Tohoku
University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; 3Graduate School of Medicine,
Kobe University, Japan; 4Dept. of Human & Information Science,
Tokai University, Japan
Intraluminal
MRI probe holds promise to achieve high resolution image of small pathological
lesion such as the vessel plaque comparing to the conventional MRI scanner.
The MR signal receive coil is expected to be characterized by high
signal-noise-ratio (SNR), good signal homogeneity and small size. By
employing the developed photolithography technology on cylinder substrates,
the MRI receive coil for the intraluminal application can be fabricated
arbitrarily with the accurate and optimized shape. Comparing to previous
single layer coil, this study presents the design of the multilayer receive
coil for improving the imaging performance.